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We’ve been counting all the things in kindergart

We’ve been counting all the things in kindergarten and are starting to compare numbers 0-10. Showing two sets of objects is an easy way to get students talking about quantities, but asking students what they notice first, provides an entry point for every child. You could also provide sentence stems to scaffold students. A challenge with distance learning is that students are not immersed in the language rich classroom all day. I’ve tried to be very intentional about providing opportunities for students to share, and explain their thinking. You could use these types of images in a whole group lesson, or post the picture in Flipgrid and have students respond and tell how they know one is more or less than the other.

Thankful for a husband that doesn’t blink when I

Thankful for a husband that doesn’t blink when I ask him to buy me a couple of pumpkins, drive me to the park, and record me rolling pumpkins down the hill. He gets me. This year is so hard, but we’ll get through it. I hope you all are hanging in there and taking care of yourselves! 💗

Another awesome Wordless Picture Book to add to yo

Another awesome Wordless Picture Book to add to your collection! This book is precious! 💗 I’ve been reading wordless picture books under the document camera so students can see every detail up close. Also speaking of looking closely, a document camera is hands down my most used classroom tool teaching in person AND remotely.

💗☕️ Let’s just say I’m using this more

💗☕️ Let’s just say I’m using this more than ever this year because #remoteteaching 🙃 Also, loving my mug that @thewrightstuffchics gifted me. Thank you so much! I love it! 💗

☺️GUESS WHAT?!! I got to read to kids today! M

☺️GUESS WHAT?!! I got to read to kids today! My sweet, sweet teammate invited me in to read to her students!! I popped in between my online synchronous lessons. The kids were wonderful and it was SO GOOD for my soul! Thank you sooo much Abby! It made my week! 💗💗💗

We’ve been exploring wordless picture books to h

We’ve been exploring wordless picture books to help us learn to read the pictures lately. Our mini lessons look a little bit different while on Google Meet but actually pretty similar to what we would do in the classroom. I plan to take pictures of the anchor charts we create and post them in our learning slides to remind students what they’re working on! #kindergarten

😍Wordless Picture Books! This one is AMAZING !

😍Wordless Picture Books! This one is AMAZING ! We’re learning all about looking closely at the pictures, noticing facial expressions, and telling the story we see. There is also a wordless picture book collection on @epic4kids that students can use to practice these skills independently if they are remote learning!

When you’re the online teacher, but still set ou

When you’re the online teacher, but still set out some Back to School books because it makes you feel better! ☺️Anyone else?!

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